Monica Medina

Professor of Biology

Monica Medina

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Genes Genome Anthozoa Bacteria Protein Genomics Animals Coral Reefs Phylogeny Microbiota Coral Health Proteins Corals Ecology Immunity Earth (Planet) Symbiodinium Snails Topology Catalogs Bacteriophages Temperature Reefs Dna

Most Recent Publications

Temporally coupled symbiont acquisition and metamorphosis in corals: the right-time right-place hypothesis.

Aaron Hartmann, Molecular Ecology on p. 141-155

The role of the endolithic alga Ostreobium spp. during coral bleaching recovery

Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Michele Weber, Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Susana Enríquez, Hiroaki Kitano, Mónica Medina, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, 2022, Scientific Reports

Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration

Rebecca Vega Thurber, Emily R. Schmeltzer, Andréa G. Grottoli, Robert van Woesik, Robert J. Toonen, Mark Warner, Kerri L. Dobson, Rowan H. McLachlan, Katie Barott, Daniel J. Barshis, Justin Baumann, Leila Chapron, David J. Combosch, Adrienne M.S. Correa, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Mary Hagedorn, Laetitia Hédouin, Kenneth Hoadley, Thomas Felis, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Carly Kenkel, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Jennifer Matthews, Mónica Medina, Christopher Meyer, Corinna Oster, James Price, Hollie M. Putnam, Yvonne Sawall, 2022, PeerJ

Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

Uri Neri, Yuri I. Wolf, Simon Roux, Antonio Pedro Camargo, Benjamin Lee, Darius Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, Natalia Ivanova, Lisa Zeigler Allen, David Paez-Espino, Donald A. Bryant, Devaki Bhaya, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Alexander J. Probst, Alexander Sczyrba, Annegret Kohler, Armand Séguin, Ashley Shade, Barbara J. Campbell, Björn D. Lindahl, Brandi Kiel Reese, Breanna M. Roque, Chris DeRito, Colin Averill, Daniel Cullen, David A.C. Beck, David A. Walsh, David M. Ward, Dongying Wu, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Eoin L. Brodie, Erica B. Young, Erik A. Lilleskov, Federico J. Castillo, Francis M. Martin, Gary R. LeCleir, Graeme T. Attwood, Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, Holly M. Simon, Ian Hewson, Igor V. Grigoriev, James M. Tiedje, Janet K. Jansson, Janey Lee, Jean S. VanderGheynst, Jeff Dangl, Jeff S. Bowman, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, Monica Medina, Terrence H. Bell, 2022, Cell on p. 4023-4037.e18

Advances in coral immunity ‘omics in response to disease outbreaks

Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Andrew C. Baker, Kelsey M. Beavers, Neha Garg, Jeffrey R. Guyon, Aine Hawthorn, Nicholas J. MacKnight, Mónica Medina, Laura D. Mydlarz, Esther C. Peters, Julia Marie Stewart, Michael S. Studivan, Joshua D. Voss, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes

Brayon J. Fremin, Ami S. Bhatt, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Aditi Sengupta, Alexander Sczyrba, Aline Maria da Silva, Alison Buchan, Amelie Gaudin, Andreas Brune, Ann M. Hirsch, Anthony Neumann, Ashley Shade, Axel Visel, Barbara Campbell, Brett Baker, Brian P. Hedlund, Byron C. Crump, Cameron Currie, Charlene Kelly, Chris Craft, Christina Hazard, Christopher Francis, Christopher W. Schadt, Colin Averill, Courtney Mobilian, Dan Buckley, Dana Hunt, Daniel Noguera, David Beck, David L. Valentine, David Walsh, Dawn Sumner, Despoina Lymperopoulou, Devaki Bhaya, Donald A. Bryant, Elise Morrison, Eoin Brodie, Erica Young, Erik Lilleskov, Eva Högfors-Rönnholm, Feng Chen, Frank Stewart, Graeme W. Nicol, Hanno Teeling, Harry R. Beller, Hebe Dionisi, Hui Ling Liao, J. Michael Beman, Jennifer Macalady, Monica Medina, 2022, Cell Reports

Thermal Stress Has Minimal Effects on Bacterial Communities of Thermotolerant Symbiodinium Cultures

Erika M. Díaz-Almeyda, Tyrone Ryba, Aki H. Ohdera, Shannon M. Collins, Natali Shafer, Caroline Link, Marcela Prado-Zapata, Cara Ruhnke, Meredith Moore, A. M. González Angel, F. Joseph Pollock, Monica Medina, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Grand Challenges in Coevolution

Mónica Medina, David M. Baker, David A. Baltrus, Gordon M. Bennett, Ulisse Cardini, Adrienne M.S. Correa, Sandie M. Degnan, Gregor Christa, Eunsoo Kim, Jingchun Li, David R. Nash, Ezequiel Marzinelli, Michele Nishiguchi, Carlos Prada, Melissa S. Roth, Mahasweta Saha, Christopher I. Smith, Kevin R. Theis, Jesse Zaneveld, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Every refuge has its price: Ostreobium as a model for understanding how algae can live in rock and stay in business

Kshitij Tandon, Marisa M. Pasella, Cintia Iha, Francesco Ricci, Juntong Hu, Charles J. O'Kelly, Mónica Medina, Michael Kühl, Heroen Verbruggen, 2022, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology on p. 27-36

Linking photoacclimation responses and microbiome shifts between depth-segregated sibling species of reef corals

Carlos Prada, Tom s. L pez-Londono, F. Joseph Pollock, Sofia Roitman, Kim B. Ritchie, Don R. Levitan, Nancy Knowlton, Cheryl Woodley, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, M. nica Medina, 2022, Royal Society Open Science

Most-Cited Papers

A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity

Luke R. Thompson, Jon G. Sanders, Daniel McDonald, Amnon Amir, Joshua Ladau, Kenneth J. Locey, Robert J. Prill, Anupriya Tripathi, Sean M. Gibbons, Gail Ackermann, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Stefan Janssen, Evguenia Kopylova, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Antonio González, James T. Morton, Siavash Mirarab, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Lingjing Jiang, Mohamed F. Haroon, Jad Kanbar, Qiyun Zhu, Se Jin Song, Tomasz Kosciolek, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Joshua Lefler, Colin J. Brislawn, Gregory Humphrey, Sarah M. Owens, Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Donna Berg-Lyons, Valerie McKenzie, Noah Fierer, Jed A. Fuhrman, Aaron Clauset, Rick L. Stevens, Ashley Shade, Katherine S. Pollard, Kelly D. Goodwin, Janet K. Jansson, Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight, Jose L. Agosto Rivera, Lisa Al-Moosawi, John Alverdy, Katherine R. Amato, Jason Andras, Largus T. Angenent, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos, Mónica Medina, 2017, Nature on p. 457-463

Draft assembly of the symbiodinium minutum nuclear genome reveals dinoflagellate gene structure

Eiichi Shoguchi, Chuya Shinzato, Takeshi Kawashima, Fuki Gyoja, Sutada Mungpakdee, Ryo Koyanagi, Takeshi Takeuchi, Kanako Hisata, Makiko Tanaka, Mayuki Fujiwara, Mayuko Hamada, Azadeh Seidi, Manabu Fujie, Takeshi Usami, Hiroki Goto, Shinichi Yamasaki, Nana Arakaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoko Kuroki, Asao Fujiyama, Mónica Medina, Mary Alice Coffroth, Debashish Bhattacharya, Nori Satoh, 2013, Current Biology on p. 1399-1408

Microbes in the coral holobiont: Partners through evolution, development, and ecological interactions

Janelle R. Thompson, Hanny E. Rivera, Collin J. Closek, Mónica Medina, 2014, Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

Stephen Nayfach, Simon Roux, Rekha Seshadri, Daniel Udwary, Neha Varghese, Frederik Schulz, Dongying Wu, David Paez-Espino, I. Min Chen, Marcel Huntemann, Krishna Palaniappan, Joshua Ladau, Supratim Mukherjee, T. B.K. Reddy, Torben Nielsen, Edward Kirton, José P. Faria, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, Christopher S. Henry, Sean P. Jungbluth, Dylan Chivian, Paramvir Dehal, Elisha M. Wood-Charlson, Adam P. Arkin, Susannah G. Tringe, Axel Visel, Helena Abreu, Silvia G. Acinas, Eric Allen, Michelle A. Allen, Lauren V. Alteio, Gary Andersen, Alexandre M. Anesio, Graeme Attwood, Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Yacine Badis, Jake Bailey, Brett Baker, Petr Baldrian, Hazel A. Barton, David A.C. Beck, Eric D. Becraft, Harry R. Beller, J. Michael Beman, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Timothy D. Berry, Anthony Bertagnolli, Stefan Bertilsson, Donald A. Bryant, Mónica Medina, 2021, Nature Biotechnology on p. 499-509

Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail

Coen M. Adema, La Deana W. Hillier, Catherine S. Jones, Eric S. Loker, Matty Knight, Patrick Minx, Guilherme Oliveira, Nithya Raghavan, Andrew Shedlock, Laurence Rodrigues Do Amaral, Halime D. Arican-Goktas, Juliana G. Assis, Elio Hideo Baba, Olga L. Baron, Christopher J. Bayne, Utibe Bickham-Wright, Kyle K. Biggar, Michael Blouin, Bryony C. Bonning, Chris Botka, Joanna M. Bridger, Katherine M. Buckley, Sarah K. Buddenborg, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Julia Carleton, Omar S. Carvalho, Maria G. Castillo, Iain W. Chalmers, Mikkel Christensens, Sandra Clifton, Celine Cosseau, Christine Coustau, Richard M. Cripps, Yesid Cuesta-Astroz, Scott F. Cummins, Leon DI Stephano, Nathalie DInguirard, David Duval, Scott Emrich, Cédric Feschotte, Rene Feyereisen, Peter Fitzgerald, Catrina Fronick, Lucinda Fulton, Richard Galinier, Sandra G. Gava, Michael Geusz, Kathrin K. Geyer, Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Matheus De Souza Gomes, Michelle A. Gordy, Benjamin Gourbal, Christoph Grunau, Patrick C. Hanington, Karl F. Hoffmann, Daniel Hughes, Judith Humphries, Daniel J. Jackson, Liana K. Jannotti-Passos, Wander De Jesus Jeremias, Susan Jobling, Bishoy Kamel, Aurélie Kapusta, Satwant Kaur, Joris M. Koene, Andrea B. Kohn, Dan Lawson, Scott P. Lawton, Di Liang, Yanin Limpanont, Sijun Liu, Anne E. Lockyer, Ty Anna L. Lovato, Fernanda Ludolf, Vince Magrini, Donald P. McManus, Monica Medina, Milind Misra, Guillaume Mitta, Gerald M. Mkoji, Michael J. Montague, Cesar Montelongo, Leonid L. Moroz, Monica C. Munoz-Torres, Umar Niazi, Leslie R. Noble, Francislon S. Oliveira, Fabiano S. Pais, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Rob Peace, Janeth J. Pena, Emmanuel A. Pila, Titouan Quelais, Brian J. Raney, Jonathan P. Rast, David Rollinson, Izinara C. Rosse, Bronwyn Rotgans, Edwin J. Routledge, Kathryn M. Ryan, Larissa L.S. Scholte, Kenneth B. Storey, Martin Swain, Jacob A. Tennessen, Chad Tomlinson, Damian L. Trujillo, Emanuela V. Volpi, Anthony J. Walker, Tianfang Wang, Ittiprasert Wannaporn, Wesley C. Warren, Xiao Jun Wu, Timothy P. Yoshino, Mohammed Yusuf, Si Ming Zhang, Min Zhao, Richard K. Wilson, 2017, Nature Communications

Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny

F. Joseph Pollock, Ryan McMinds, Styles Smith, David G. Bourne, Bette L. Willis, Mónica Medina, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Jesse R. Zaneveld, 2018, Nature Communications

Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune-related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral

Jorge H. Pinzón, Bishoy Kamel, Colleen A. Burge, C. Drew Harvell, Mónica Medina, Ernesto Weil, Laura D. Mydlarz, 2015, Royal Society Open Science

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

Debashish Bhattacharya, Shobhit Agrawal, Manuel Aranda, Sebastian Baumgarten, Mahdi Belcaid, Jeana L. Drake, Douglas Erwin, Sylvian Foret, Ruth D. Gates, David F. Gruber, Bishoy Kamel, Michael P. Lesser, Oren Levy, Yi Jin Liew, Matthew MacManes, Tali Mass, Monica Medina, Shaadi Mehr, Eli Meyer, Dana C. Price, Hollie M. Putnam, Huan Qiu, Chuya Shinzato, Eiichi Shoguchi, Alexander J. Stokes, Sylvie Tambutté, Dan Tchernov, Christian R. Voolstra, Nicole Wagner, Charles W. Walker, Andreas P.M. Weber, Virginia Weis, Ehud Zelzion, Didier Zoccola, Paul G. Falkowski, 2016, eLife

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, M. Sabrina Pankey, Aki H. Ohdera, Monica Medina, David C. Plachetzki, Allen G. Collins, Joseph F. Ryan, 2018, BMC Evolutionary Biology

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes

Heather Bracken-Grissom, Allen Collins, Timothy Collins, Keith Crandall, Daniel Distel, Casey Dunn, Gonzalo Giribet, Steven Haddock, Nancy Knowlton, Mark Martindale, Monica Medina, Charles Messing, Stephen O'Brien, Gustav Paulay, Nicolas Putnam, Timothy Ravasi, Greg Rouse, Joseph Ryan, Anja Schulze, Gert Worheide, Maja Adamska, Xavier Bailly, Jesse Breinholt, William Browne, M Diaz, Nathaniel Evans, Jean-Francois Flot, Nicole Fogarty, Matthew Johnston, Bishoy Kamel, Akito Kawahara, Tammy Laberge, Dennis Lavrov, Francois Michonneau, Leonid Moroz, Todd Oakley, Karen Osborne, Shirley Pomponi, Adelaide Rhodes, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty, Scott Santos, Nori Satoh, Robert Thacker, Yves Van de Peer, Christian Voolstra, David Welch, Judith Winston, Xin Zhou, 2014, Journal of Heredity on p. 1-18